tradision.html - {n.} One of the stamps that you get (as from a store or gas station) because you buy something there; a stamp you get with a purchase and save in special books until you have enough to take to a special store and trade for something you want. * /Mother always buys things in stores where they give trading stamps./

tradision.html - n.
the act of engaging in trade.

trading estate esp. Brit. a specially-designed industrial and commercial area. trading post a store etc. established in a remote or unsettled region. trading-stamp a stamp given to customers by some stores which is exchangeable in large numbers for various articles.

tradision.html - n.
1 a a custom, opinion, or belief handed down to posterity esp. orally or by practice. b this process of handing down.
2 esp. joc. an established practice or custom (it's a tradition to complain about the weather).
3 artistic, literary, etc. principles based on experience and practice; any one of these (stage tradition; traditions of the Dutch School).
4 Theol. doctrine or a particular doctrine etc. claimed to have divine authority without documentary evidence, esp.: a the oral teaching of Christ and the Apostles. b the laws held by the Pharisees to have been delivered by God to Moses. c the words and deeds of Muhammad not in the Koran.
5 Law the formal delivery of property etc.

traditionary adj. traditionist n. traditionless adj. [ME f. OF tradicion or L traditio f. tradere hand on, betray (as TRANS-, dare give)]

tradision.html - adj.
1 of, based on, or obtained by tradition.
2 (of jazz) in the style of the early 20th c.

traditionally adv.

tradision.html - n.
1 respect, esp. excessive, for tradition, esp. in religion.
2 a philosophical system referring all religious knowledge to divine revelation and tradition.

traditionalist n. traditionalistic adj.

tradision.html - n.
(pl. traditors or traditores) hist. an early Christian who surrendered copies of Scripture or Church property to his or her persecutors to save his or her life. [L: see TRAITOR]